ACRONYCTA. 



ITah. Caijada (Norman), 1 5 , Ottawa {Yoinig\ 1 ^ ; U.S.A., 

 New York (Doiibledaif), 1 $ type, Evans Center (Grote), 3 d' , 4 2 ,' 

 Distr. of Columbia, Washington, and West to the Mississippi and 

 Central States. E,vp. 50-52 millim. 



fMrm. S.niMi & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 121 ; Saunders, Ins 

 Inj. Fruits, p. 166, f. 174. 



Head pale, thickly dotted with brown, a red spot on vertex of 

 each lobe. Body green on the sides, an even narrow dorsal brown 

 stripe, Avidened on joint 1, narrowed on the incisures ; hairs sparse, 

 fine, almost single. Pood-plants : Apple, Birch, &c. — H. G. D. 



3662. Acronycta subochrea. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 32.) 



Acronycta atibocrea, Q-i-otc, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 153 fl874) • 

 S-nith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. ji. 42. i - > 



Acronycta brumosa, Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 117, pi. xiii. 

 t". 1 (nee Guen.). 



Apatela hamamells, Dyar, Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 102 (nee Gruen.). 



Head and thorax grey-white largely mixed with fuscous black ; 

 palpi white at base, the 2nd joint with black band ; lower part of 

 frons whitish ; a white bar between antennae ; shoulders and outer 

 edges of patagia with black stripes ; tibiae with slight black streaks, 

 the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen white irrorated with 

 diirk brown and dorsally clothed with red-brown hair except 

 towards extremity, the basal crest fuscous and white. Fore wing 

 bluish white thickly irrorated with very dark brown and suffused 

 with dark brown below the cell to antemedial line, in reniform 

 and below end of cell and beyond postmedial line ; some yellowish 

 at base of inner margin; subbasal line represented by double dark 

 striae from costa ; antemedial line rather indistinct, double, the 

 lines rather widely separated towards costa, oblique, minutely 

 waved, bent inwards to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, defined by black, open above, the former round, the latter 

 defined by black points on outer side ; a very oblique blackish 

 striga from costa to reniform and minutely waved line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin with short diffused blackish streak 

 before it above vein 1 ; postmedial line blackish, double at costa, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below 

 vein 3 and angled outwards at rein 1 ; some white points with 

 black streaks between them beyond it on costa ; an indistinct 

 minutelv waved pale subterminal line ; a terminal series of small 

 black spots ; cilia mostly black at base and white at tips. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with olive-brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous, in female darker ; cilia white with a dark line 

 through them ; the underside white irrorated with dark browjj, 

 a dark streak in base of cell, black diseoidal spot, crenulate 

 postmedial line bent inwards to costa and with minute dark 

 streaks on the veins, and terminal series of slight lunules. 



Hub. Canada, Ontario; U.S.A., South to Virginia and West to 



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